The first DPDK Summit of 2018 will take place in the Leela Palace hotel [1] in Bangalore on Friday March 9th. The event will cover the latest developments to the DPDK framework, and their application to a variety of industry segments including telecom, cloud, enterprise and security. The event enables the DPDK open source community to share information on DPDK usage and implementation; to hear from DPDK developers, contributors, and users; and to build the DPDK community. Registration [2] for the event is now open. The call for proposals [3] is also now open. Please submit proposals for presentations on any DPDK-related topics by Monday February 5th. [1] https://www.theleela.com/en_us/hotels-in-bengaluru/the-leela-palace-hotel-bengaluru/ [2] https://www.regonline.com/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=2151252 [3] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPuJBk4Pj59yRNwlsra56DVaxkriqM0MD_Ownbdf05I_Zd9A/viewform Sujata Tibrewala @sujatatibre Community Development Manager Intel Developer Zone https://software.intel.com/networking NPG Marketing Training PM (DOT)